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BBC:
The BBC's Doctor Who casts its first female Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, succeeding Peter Capaldi, who will leave during the Christmas special episode — Jodie Whittaker has been announced as Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord - the first woman to be given the role. — The new Doctor's identity …
A.J. Katz / TVNewser:
ABC News' Jonathan Karl elected WHCA president for 2019-2020, receiving 104 out of 265 votes cast; Dallas Morning News' Todd Gillman came second with 87 votes — The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) has elected ABC News' chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl to be its president for 2019-2020.
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Media Matters for America, Mediaite, Politico, The Hill and Washington Examiner
Katerina Eva Matsa / Pew Research Center:
Local TV news audiences declined in past decade, but in 2016 digital ad revenue rose 10% YoY, over-the-air revenue rose 11%, similar to other election years — MORE FACT SHEETS: STATE OF THE NEWS MEDIA — Local television news programming has shed audience over the past decade, including this past year in most timeslots studied.
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@pewjournalism, @pewjournalism, @katmatsa, @michaelbarthel, @johngramlich and Vanity Fair
New York Times:
President Trump was good-humored with reporters on Air Force One for an hour, in stark contrast to how he treats the news media in public — WASHINGTON — The Donald J. Trump who turned up in the press cabin of Air Force One on Wednesday evening, as his plane crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Paris …
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@maggienyt
The Drum:
Interview with Google's Madhav Chinnappa on the goals of the Digital News Initiative, projects like Wikitribune, and natural-language reporting tool Radar — Under fire from several quarters for an array of accusations ranging from monopolistic practices to the dissemination (and even funding) …
Marty Kaiser / Poynter:
Interview with Billy Penn's Chris Krewson on managing a news startup: focus on readers and how to solve their problems — This is part of a series of Q and As with leaders at news organizations. I asked leaders to think about the challenges they face in their news organizations and to share guidance and advice.
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@kristenhare
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Behind the scenes at Fox & Friends, whose sway with Donald Trump may make it the most influential news program in the US — In the studio with the program Trump loves and the rest of the media loves to hate as it becomes the eye of the president's media hurricane, with ratings …
Dave McNary / Variety:
SAG-AFTRA union reaches tentative 3-year deal with NPR, says new deal provides for salary increases and prevents NPR from setting up a two-tiered salary system — Management of National Public Radio and SAG-AFTRA have reached a tentative three-year deal, averting a strike by more than 400 of NPR's news and programming employees.
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SAG-AFTRA, @atompkins, Deadline, @atompkins, @hberkes, Current, SAG-AFTRA, Hollywood Reporter, @atompkins, @atompkins and Forbes
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
The New York Times asks court to toss Sarah Palin lawsuit, says there was no malice in a quickly corrected editorial claiming her PAC incited Giffords shooting — NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times has asked a judge to toss out a defamation lawsuit former Alaska governor Sarah Palin filed against it …
Will Oremus / Slate:
The push for an antitrust exemption highlights the contradiction between the civic purpose and for-profit motive of newspapers — But it could help them resolve their existential crisis. — Newspapers' business models have been taking on water for years thanks to the rise of Google …
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Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:
Sources: ahead of Time Warner buy, AT&T plans to create telecom and media arms with separate CEOs, overseen by Randall Stephenson, who will become exec chairman — Co-chiefs to run separate communications and media businesses — Stephenson sheds CEO title, will oversee company as chairman
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Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Q&A with Malcolm Gladwell about how his podcast, Revisionist History, came to be, how curiosity of the medium made him transition to audio, more — Each episode of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast begins with a simple inquiry — it could be about an event, a person, an idea or even a song.
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